Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
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#2I mean it is kind of nuts. I didn't have "pretty much switch entirely to Bing" on my 2023 search Bingo card, but here we are.
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#3What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
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#4What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
He will be fired very soon
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#5Samsung has done this before, and Google has multiple times made various offers and incentives intended to "encourage" Samsung not to. Because a huge portion of the Android monopoly will leave Google Search when this happens. Stuff like OEMs getting a cut of Play Store revenue are mechanics done to avoid this.
There's a pretty good chance Samsung is just negotiating for better terms, kinda like carriage disputes for TV networks.
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#61) "It will reportedly be known as Project ‘Magi’ and is said to provide a far more personalized experience than the company’s current service."
That is super creepy. Google knows a lot about you, and now it is using that knowledge to really put you in a filter bubble. Imagine this plus engagement metrics.
2) So much for that monopoly a lot of people thought Google had. Turns out they're still as exposed to market pressure as they ever were.
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#7Wait, people actually use the android search box?
It's usually the first thing I remove
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#8Edit: looks like I'm wrong, see IceWreck's reply below.
Original comment: my understanding is that this means Google will deny their customers access to Google Play, Photos and other first party Google apps. Samsung has replacements for some of these but not all of them.
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#9Samsung has done this before, and Google has multiple times made various offers and incentives intended to "encourage" Samsung not to. Because a huge portion of the Android monopoly will leave Google Search when this happens. Stuff like OEMs getting a cut of Play Store revenue are mechanics done to avoid this. There's a pretty good chance Samsung is just negotiating for better terms, kinda like carriage disputes for…
Yeah, for Google this is existential, for Microsoft it's not. Google will go a lot further than Microsoft will to keep Samsung on their side.
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#10What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
>They seem to be aimless
I would argue for 95% of Google's existence they have been pretty much aimless.